{"id":1645,"date":"2026-07-31T11:19:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T10:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/?p=1645"},"modified":"2026-07-31T11:21:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T10:21:45","slug":"chris-ho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/chris-ho\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Ho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1646 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2026\/07\/Crhis_headshot-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"565\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2026\/07\/Crhis_headshot-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2026\/07\/Crhis_headshot-300x281.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2026\/07\/Crhis_headshot-1024x958.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2026\/07\/Crhis_headshot-768x719.jpg 768w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2026\/07\/Crhis_headshot-1536x1438.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2026\/07\/Crhis_headshot-2048x1917.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Chris is a PhD candidate in the School of Public Health at Imperial College London, co-supervised by Professor Sandy Harrison. His research investigates the population health impacts of landscape fire-related air pollution across Africa, with a particular focus on child health outcomes and health inequalities. His work integrates satellite-derived fire emissions and climate data with demographic and socioeconomic datasets to investigate spatial patterns of exposure and vulnerability, and to estimate the health burden attributable to fire-related air pollution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:c.ho24@imperial.ac.uk\">Email<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0009-7290-9452\">ORCID ID<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris is a PhD candidate in the School of Public Health at Imperial College London, co-supervised by Professor Sandy Harrison. 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